They may not be the same jokes our culture would have come up with (the Kurdish one involves, er, farm animals, and apparently the worst insult the Palestinians can think of is to imply that Daesh is part of the international Zionist conspiracy)—though I love the terrorist shredding on a Kalashnikov instead of a guitar, and that song is catchy!—but this is true multiculturalism: a diverse rainbow of genuinely different cultures, all mocking the Daesh terrorists.

This is telly “edginess” — edginess with no edge. The [rude words] function as euphemism, piling up profanity as a form of polite evasion — as a way of avoiding saying anything. It’s the residual pose of edginess in a craven culture. Thus the paradox of our times: to say anything other than [obscenity] might offend someone. And it surely doesn’t get much more pathetic than that.